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What is going on in your yurtiverse?

Well that was a fun journey hahaha. Welcome back to PEI. You probably missed it like crazy anyway. :)
 
yeah I really did. i missed the country. no country left where I'm from... well... nothing we could ever afford without dabbling in some illegal high profit activity haha. I guess theres good and bad wherever you go... i miss some parts of my hometown, but it couldn't compete with small town, country, endless beaches, acreage and yurts.
 
well our Yurtiverse experienced the worst rainfall I've ever known early this morning. I love fall (I really do)... but the rain that comes with it takes on a whole new meaning when you live in a really big tent. It was so loud on the 'roof' it was borderline deafening. Usually we sleep through everything. We've slept through two full blown tropical storms... but this 3 am rain was just over the top and woke all 4 sound sleepers. I'll be needing caffeine today.

The temperatures have also dropped so fast this approaching fall we have needed the wood stove on twice this fall already.
 
Up at camp for early bear season. Was coming back after a 5 mile hike and just had a moment where I realized the camp is finally starting to come together a bit. Took a pic:

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Had a campfire tonight; cooked up the shrooms, along with some chicken and cauliflower.

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amberoons said:
well our Yurtiverse experienced the worst rainfall I've ever known early this morning. I love fall (I really do)... but the rain that comes with it takes on a whole new meaning when you live in a really big tent. It was so loud on the 'roof' it was borderline deafening. Usually we sleep through everything. We've slept through two full blown tropical storms... but this 3 am rain was just over the top and woke all 4 sound sleepers. I'll be needing caffeine today.

The temperatures have also dropped so fast this approaching fall we have needed the wood stove on twice this fall already.
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I'm surpised to hear that about the rain noise. We have yurts in the rainforest here in Hawaii and are rarely bothered by the sounds of rain on the roof. It's nothing like the deafening sound of a downpour on a metal roof :eek:. But in areas where we're used to attic space, major insulation, several layers of building materials to buffer the noise... yeah, it is way louder than that. And of course in torrential downpours, the sound is loud, but I don't really mind it. I love the feeling of being snug in a yurt in that kind of weather. :D
 
I have a wife and a lot of kids. Living in a yurt is just not in my immediate future. :)
 
Totally understand that. From everything you have learned so far, would you need to do anything else to be able to live in it full time? Or is it set up so that it could sustained comfortable living?
 
We just built our platform and put our yurt up to finally start living in it! Very excited about getting cosy once the woodburner is in, and settling into our lovely spot. Anyone else living in a yurt over winter in sunny Scotland?
 
Jafo, climate at the moment is drizzly! We have colder weather than England, especially in winter where we can sometimes have a foot of snow but not always. Our plot seems to have a nice wee microclimate where we miss most of the rain that heads up the glen, just enjoyed a very dry (by Scottish standards) summer. It can get quite windy so we've replaced the horse-hair external ropes (our yurt is a second hand import from Mongolia) with plastic coated wire washing lines (strong but cheap) and tied the lattice to the platform with eyelet screws. We work away so needed to know it wouldn't shift anywhere!
 
Ahh ok. The climate here is much drier but we get many feet of snow. I think you will enjoy the yurt, especially with a wood stove which will do its job keeping the moisture at bay.
 
We have finally taken the second step towards a vacation yurt. First was buy the land. Now we have a road and a place cleared for it. Only the deer have now claimed it as their own.

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Many more steps to go.
 
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